[ovirt-users] Looking for Python-SDK documentation

Frank Thommen f.thommen at dkfz-heidelberg.de
Tue Apr 12 21:03:57 UTC 2016


On 12.04.16 13:57, Alexander Wels wrote:
> On Monday, April 11, 2016 05:03:28 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 20:41 +0200, Frank Thommen wrote:
>>> On 11.04.16 20:17, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>>> [...]
>> I'm in the same boat as Frank.  I've done programming in various
>> languages since Fortran without the numbers <G> but only when needed
>> for my job as an Engineer so I'm not a professional but just trying to
>> get a job done.  It would be nice to have a full reference so we know
>> what to provide.  When trying to connect with the api I finally figured
>> out to use ca_file (like ca-file on the command line).  Raz's reference
>> is more complete but still leaves a lot out.  The newer equivalent of
>> Raz's reference seems to be http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-manage
>> ment/features/infra/python-sdk/.
>
> The Python/Java/Ruby SDKs are simply language specific wrappers around the REST
> api. So if you want a full list of all the options available check out the
> REST api documentation. You will have to translate a particular REST api
> field/feature to the SDK, but all the SDKs are generated from the REST api
> interface definition so the naming and everything should be the same.

That makes sense, thanks.  On the other hand I could also not find any 
REST api reference.  Just some pages with examples a la "find it out 
yourself from there"...

frank



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